The arts community lost a legendary figure in the past few years in Biff Mitchell, a photographer, writer and multidisciplinary artist — as well as a champion of the arts and the artists who make them. My guest today is Deanna Musgrave, one of Biff’s friends and a painter who’s portrait of Biff will be
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My guest today is LMG Wilson, a local author who has just published a new novella, Of Mists and Bogs: Intrigue, Espionage, and Tea. Described as “a spy fantasy novella where not even the tea is safe!”
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My guest today is Thomas Hodd, the Saint John playwright behind an upcoming Theatre NB production of O’Brien.
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My guests today are Corinski Nowlan (Herbert The Cow Productions), Scott Shannon (Nasty Shadows Theatre Company) and Ryan Griffith (Next Folding Theatre Company), here to celebrate 25th anniversaries for two of the companies with a triptych of plays in a production called The 25th Wall.
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My guest is Fawn Parker, newly-minted Poet Laureate of the city of Fredericton. Fawn joins me to talk about their process for writing, the novels they have written (and the new one just released), and their job as the Poet Laureate.
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My guests today are Robin Maharaj (UNB Writer-in-residence) and Robert Norsworthy (QWERTY Managing Editor) to talk about writing and the upcoming QWERTY Reads event.
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My guest today is Abby Paige, a poet and playwright currently in the Barracks as an artist-in-residence looking closely at the notion of “come-from-away”.
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My guest today is Mark Anthony Jarman, a writer writing in public as one of this week’s Artists-in-Residence at the Barracks.
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My guest today is Marcel St. Pierre, comedian, actor, producer, improvisor, but most importantly today: writer! He joins me to talk about his new book, Vengeful Hank and Other Short Weird Stories.
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My guests today are MA students Alex and Steve who also work for UNB’s literary magazine, QWERTY. Music today by Al Lukas, Ariel Sharratt & Matthias Kom, and The Jordan Patterson Band.
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Guests today are Jean-Michel Cliche and Ryan Griffith, to talk about Next Folding Theatre Company’s new production, “Back To Zero”. Music by women today: Basia Bulat, Roxy and the Underground Soul Sound and Amelia Curran.
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My guests today are Ryan Gaio (reader for Qwerty Magazine) and Naomi K. Lewis (UNB Writer-In-Residence) to talk about the upcoming Qwerty Reads events. Music by Tomato Tomato, The Do Good Badlies and Earthbound Trio.
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Traditional theatre follows a process (I imagine) something like this: Playwright writes a play. Director gets play, casts play. Actors perform play. But what if you took that process and compressed it to: People get together, write the script, act in the script and direct each other. That the process behind the Creative Collaboration series
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I am constantly amazed by the level and breadth of artistic talent in and around this city. We often get a chance to celebrate the great music, from regular performances at venues like The Capital Complex, The Cellar and The Playhouse. This weekend, we celebrate drama, both in cinema and in theatre. Opening today are two
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It’s November, and for a great many people around the world, it’s time to write. NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month is a challenge to produce a novel-length work (50,000 words) in the month of November. If you do the math, that’s about 1,500 words a day! Not everybody can write that fast. Most, like my
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